Re: Log. Log Backup: How full is tape?

Im Artikel <32EF7C64.67C9@geocities.com>, Manickam R Muthukumar <muthukumar@geocities.com> schreibt: > >Hi, > > tbtape will prompt you to change the tape >once it is full, and will wait till you change the >tape and press enter. Ofcourse if it gets full by >friday night, it will be waiting till you come >back. My suggestion would be to have different >tapes for say weekly/once in 3 days etc. depending >on your transaction volume, in such a case you >wouldn't have to worry about tape getting full. > >Hope this helps > >Richard Spitz wrote: >> >> Dear Informix experts, >> >> in our Online 5.07UC1 system, we have continuous backup of logical >> logs turned on. Full logical logs are written to a DC6525 tape, which >> should be able to hold lots of logs, but will be full sometime. >> >> How can I find out how full that tape already is? Will tbtape >> give me a warning early enough, or do I have to worry about the >> tape becoming full on a friday evening, blocking the whole system >> until monday morning when I come back to work? >> >> Regards, Richard >> -- >> +--------------------------+----------------------- >-------------------+ >> | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | >> | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | >> | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | >> | 81366 Munich, Germany | | >> +--------------------------+----------------------- >-------------------+ Try this, you know the size of each logical log. In your INFORMIX logfile you can find the comment of backed up logcal logs. Now you can make a thumb calculation: logsize * number of backed up logs .... Volker